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1. abeng, n. View full entry 1890
...A type of bugle made from a cow horn, used by the maroons as a musical instrument and to send signals....
2. accra, n. View full entry 1864
...W. Afr. and Caribbean. A ball-shaped fritter or sautéed patty of seasoned mashed beans, esp. black-eyed peas. In early use freq. in accra cake....
3. agidi, n. View full entry 1853
...A gelatinous starchy food made by boiling a paste of (fermented) maize meal or flour....
4. Anancy, n. View full entry 1705
...The name of a legendary male personage originally occurring in Akan mythology and subsequently playing a role in numerous Caribbean folktales, having the form of a spider and being noted for his...
5. burru, n. View full entry 1929
...A kind of vigorous, popular, and sometimes indecent, dance; the music, esp. drumming, used to accompany this....
6. John Canoe, n. View full entry 1774
...The chief dancer, or one of several dancers, in a Christmas celebration....
7. jumby, n. View full entry 1802
...A ghost or evil spirit among American and West Indian black people. Cf. zombie...
8. kas-kas, n. View full entry 1873
...In folk usage: a dispute, quarrel. ...
9. metagee, n. View full entry 1957
...In Guyana: a thick stew containing vegetables, fish, salted meat, and coconut milk, and having a distinctive grey colour. Cf. sancocho...
10. nyamps, n. View full entry 1900
...An incapable, worthless, or stupid person....
11. obeah, adj. and n. View full entry 1710-12
...Designating a person or thing involved in or associated with the practice of a kind of sorcery, witchcraft, or folk medicine originating in West Africa and mainly practised in the English-speaking areas...
12. pindar, n. View full entry 1684
...The peanut or groundnut of the plant Arachis hypogaea (also pindar nut, pindar pea); (also) the plant itself....
13. Quashie, n. View full entry 1774
...A generic name for: a black person, esp. one considered as credulous or insignificant....
14. zombie, n. View full entry 1819
...In the West Indies and southern states of America, a soulless corpse said to have been revived by witchcraft; formerly, the name of a snake-deity in voodoo cults of or deriving from...
